Trans Canada Trail in British Columbia Over a year ago now, in October and November 2022 we hiked into British Columbia on the Trans Canada Trail.  Owing to a combination and exhaustion over the past year we had yet to release blogs detailing our reflections on the TCT in a number of provinces.  Over the coming few weeks we hope to rectify this oversight and provide a general overview of each region, detail a few thoughts on our experiences in each, and perhaps help future hikers.  Much like Alberta the Great Trail in British Columbia has two distinct routes.  One o ..read more

Trans Canada Trail #Hike4Birds Update Over the past few weeks since the publication of an article in Reader’s Digest Our Canada magazine about our #Hike4Birds we have gotten a lot of emails from people asking whether we are on the Trans Canada Trail, where we are in the Arctic and how we are doing.  We want to thank everyone for their concern and curiosity.   While many have wondered if we simply were not posting due yet to the lack of WIFI connectivity in the arctic others have speculated that perhaps we had quit our coast to coast to coast trek all together ..read more

While we have a great deal to still share about our ongoing adventure across Canada we thought we would also post about something new - the Bruce Trail.    Long before we set out onto the Great Trail or onto the Camino Frances to Santiago we set out onto the famous Bruce Trail in Ontario.  The Bruce Trail is 890 km in length tracing the Niagara Escarpment from Queenston Heights to Tobermory.  It is where our love of long-distance hiking began, where we completed our first thru hike, and where we learned so much about backpacking.  Trekked from 2014-2022 it took us n ..read more

A huge thank you to Nature Canada for recognizing our #Hike4Birds along the Trans Canada Trail over the past few years.   We greatly appreciate your recognition and support!     ..read more

One of the lessons we learned from walking to Santiago de Compostela, Spain is that pilgrimage is not about the cathedral at the end.  This piece of wisdom has been freely shared by other pilgrims, in online forums, and even in many of the Camino guidebooks.  Simply put, the cathedral is not the end of the journey.   We soon realized that while the cathedral in Santiago has its own sense of grandeur, and it is exciting to receive our Compostela, which is an official certificate of completion, ultimately we did not undertake the journey to arrive at a building or to recei ..read more

Just to let everyone who was again kind enough and follow us on our second attempt at Facebook.    Over a month ago, effective June 14th, 2023 our Facebook account was no longer accessible to us and many of our posts had begun to be removed and tagged as “infringing content”.     As of today (July 25th, 2023) we received an email that both our own Facebook accounts and the Come Walk With Us page are due to be deleted for "posting infringing content" and "misleading content".  No details have been given beyond this. All attempts to have the situation clarified have fa ..read more

 “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” J.R.R. Tolkien   Being the “First” Many years ago now, just after we had finished our plans to hike the Great Trail and just before our house in Simcoe Ontario sold the intrepid and inspiring Dana Meise completed his hike along the Trans Canada Trail from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic in 2018.  His achievement marked the first time anyone had completed the national trail from coast to coast to coast.&n ..read more

 “… every time a problem ends Another one begins ...” Vampire Weekend, Harmony Hall   For all you dedicated readers who have faithfully journeyed from the Atlantic to the Pacific with us along the Trans Canada Trail this far, experiencing Canada vicariously through our adventures and misadventures, we realize this blog is now long overdue.  However life, like trails are not a straight line connecting you from beginning to end or from where you begin to your goal – it is a long and crooked path.     In recent weeks not a single day has gone by when we haven't been aske ..read more

Anyone who has completed a long-distance walk or pilgrimage knows that the post-hike blues are a very real thing.  When the rhythm of trail life is suddenly disrupted, life feels strange and off balance.  So, when you finally reach a milestone it took you four years of walking to reach, what do you do the next day? For us, the simple answer was to keep walking, at least for a little while longer.     Yesterday trekking Point Zero with members of Victoria Natural History Society passed in a blur, the details of those final kilometres utterly lost in the excitement.  No ..read more

Just over two weeks ago we signed to climb 1776 stairs (or 100 stories) for nature, wildlife, and birds up the CN Tower.   When we registered we set a lofty goal of striving to raise $1000 dollars to support WWF-Canada’s efforts to conserve and protect endangered habitats as well as reverse wildlife loss.   This weekend we ventured up all 1776 steps and in fact raised $1100 … or 110% … of our goal!   Having raised more than $1000 dollars we are deemed to be “Platinum Pandas” and so were escorted to the base of the CN Tower to begin our climb!     While we ..read more